Robustness and evolvability of heterogeneous cell populations

Molecular Biology of the Cell
Andrei KucharavyRong Li

Abstract

Biological systems are endowed with two fundamental but seemingly contradictory properties: robustness, the ability to withstand environmental fluctuations and genetic variability; and evolvability, the ability to acquire selectable and heritable phenotypic changes. Cell populations with heterogeneous genetic makeup, such as those of infectious microbial organisms or cancer, rely on their inherent robustness to maintain viability and fitness, but when encountering environmental insults, such as drug treatment, these populations are also poised for rapid adaptation through evolutionary selection. In this study, we develop a general mathematical model that allows us to explain and quantify this fundamental relationship between robustness and evolvability of heterogeneous cell populations. Our model predicts that robustness is, in fact, essential for evolvability, especially for more adverse environments, a trend we observe in aneuploid budding yeast and breast cancer cells. Robustness also compensates for the negative impact of the systems' complexity on their evolvability. Our model also provides a mathematical means to estimate the number of independent processes underlying a system's performance and identify the most generally...Continue Reading

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